Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy

Another study recommending walking as the exercise of choice for losing weight.

The successful were able to walk for 50 minutes a day for 5 days each week. Remember you just can’t stroll along at a leisurely pace.

You have to walk at a pretty good pace…Like you’re trying to get to the Krispy Kreme before the “Hot Doughnuts Now” light turns off.

“Overweight people who lost and kept off 25 to 30 pounds walked briskly for about 50 minutes a day five days a week, according to the longest clinical study ever done on exercise’s effect on weight loss and maintenance.

The study was presented here last week at the annual meeting of the Obesity Society, an organization of weight-loss professionals.”